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forageSF, the wild food CSA
Iso Rabins
forageSF is a San Francisco based project that provides a bi-weekly CSF (community supported forage). A box of all wild foraged foods. That means nothing cultivated. No iceberg lettuce or rutabagas, instead we have cattail hearts and minors lettuce. The first time human hands touch this food is when we pick it. Wild food is often more nutritious than its cultivated cousins, and takes no energy to produce (except free from the sun). We mean to change the way people see the woodlands around them, creating a true connection with our local environment, building community around food, and re-purposing the word "weed". Iso Rabins, founder of forageSF, will be on hand to answer questions, as well as holding workshops on homemade sea bean and bull whip kelp pickling.
| Location: Homegrown Village |
Point Reyes Original Blue, California’s Only Classic-Style Blue Cheese
What makes Original Blue cheese so special?
The answer is simple: it’s the milk.
As a true farmstead cheese, only the Grade A raw milk from the Giacomini Family’s herd is used to make the award-winning cheese. Original Blue is made with the morning milk, guaranteeing a freshness that can’t be duplicated. Because of the climate, rich Organic-certified land and salty Pacific air, the all natural, kosher-certified, gluten-free cheese has a flavor unique only to Point Reyes.
| Location: Homegrown Village |
Cypress Grove Chevre
Cypress Grove Chevre is the leading producer of fine American goat cheese including the top-selling American artisanal classic, Humboldt Fog.
| Location: Homegrown Village |
Redwood Hill Farm
California Crottin, Camellia, Roasted Green Chile Chevre: These are three of the goat milk cheeses made by Redwood Hill Farm and Creamery. Crottin is a 3 ounce cheese with a geotrichum candidum surface ripened rind, typical of French goat cheese. Camellia is a goat's milk version of Camembert. Roasted Green Chile Chevre is a spreadable chevre flavored with chunks of roasted green chiles and jalapenos.
| Location: Homegrown Village |
Master Gardeners... Advice to Grow By
Master Gardeners will provide advice to the Home Gardener on how to grow your own vegetables and herbs. We'll show you how to make your own seedling pots from recycled newspaper to get them started.
| Location: Homegrown Village |
The HOMEGROWN Village
Where we celebrate everything HOMEGROWN: homesteading, growing, composting and more. Dig in the dirt, connect to the soil and the source of your good food.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV01 |
Preserving Summer In A Jar
Alicia Preston
Pickling in a salty brine is one of the oldest known methods of preserving and adding flavor to food. Dill pickles, sauerkraut, and kim chee may be the best known examples, but any vegetable and many other foods can be salt-cured with delicious results. As a bonus, the probiotic qualities of these lacto-fermented foods make them more nutritious and easier to digest as well!
Brining your own vegetables allows you to play with flavors to suit your own tastes and is a simple and inexpensive way to store and enjoy the summer harvest year-round. We'll demonstrate the process and teach the rules of thumb for making your own mouth-watering treats at home.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV01 |
Feeding your Family from Seed to Table to Soil
With three simple acts, we will show you how to: garden, cook and compost. We will demonstrate affordable, easy, and fun tips for involving small to tall in feeding your household from the garden.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV01 |
Worms, Worms, Worms!
Did you know that there are hundreds of millions of microscopic soil critters in a teaspoon of healthy soil? Learn how to grow a healthy garden by feeding these soil critters. Compost and create a garden that is life sustaining and less destructive to the environment. It fun for the Whole Family.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV03 |
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company
Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company, located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula , produces award winning, hand-crafted beers and root beer centered around the most premium ingredients. Brewed in Belmont, and delivered to over 100 taps on the peninsula and in the South Bay.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV05 |
Permaculture: The cutting edge of a 10,000 yr-old idea
Terrie Miller
Permaculture is an design practice that combines several earth sciences to form sustainable human settlements that have the same natural resiliency as a healthy ecosystem. The term “permaculture” was coined by Bill Mollison who, along with his student, David Holmgren. The word itself is a combination of both “permanent agriculture” and “permanent culture.”
Permaculture is founded on three ethics:
1. Care of Earth: care for living and non-living things, including plants, animals, land, water and air.
2. Care of People: providing access to resources that are necessary for existence.
3. Setting Voluntary Limits to Consumption and Population: reinvest surplus and reduce waste to do the work of the first two ethics.
Visit this project to learn more about permaculture and some of the exciting projects and permaculture education opportunities in the bay area.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV07 |
Cultivating an EarthBox Transformation
Urban Roots - Boku Kodama
Urban Roots has been sprouting a small yet significant movement as a growing contingent of Oakland “micro-farmers” who redefine urban farming. Our goal is making EarthBoxes the “iPod” of container gardening because few innovations as simple as these self watering containers address the issues of low-cost foods, saving the earth and workforce development.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV07 |
Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County
The Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County provides information and training on the keeping of Honey Bees.
Our members are mainly hobbyists and we offer a free beekeeping class each spring.
Our booth will display information about bees, with an observation hive if possible and have honey and hive products such as candles for sale by our members.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV08 |
Kitchen Talk
Rachel Weidinger
As part of the Homegrown / FarmAid project, Rachel offers a know-it-all / reference librarian/ Car Talk style booth to answer any kitchen question participants raise. From marmalade to deglazing, from canning to grinding your own flour, this unabashed food nerd will answer all your DIY food questions and solve your "my yogurt tasted too sour" problems.
From knowledge gained from Top 10 restaurant kitchens, 30 feet of cookbooks, countless hours in the kitchen section of thrift stores, running the composting program at Burning Man, and getting fired from two bakeries, Rachel brings her DIY ethic to food.
No burning kitchen questions coming to mind? Ask about the most environmentally reasonable way to drink beer. Or how to whip up ceviche from scratch when you're stranded on a desert island. Or where to find fresh Montmorency cherries.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV09 |
Green Zebra
Anne Vollen
Green Zebra makes it fun and easy to live more sustainably. 2009 San Francisco and Peninsula/Silicon Valley editions describe and present savings from >150 local green companies. The guide is also a valuable educational resource loaded with green living tips.
We’re offering $15 Green Zebra guides (40% off) and $5 mini recycling bins. Test your environmental knowledge on our recycling quiz spinning wheel, and start sending Green Zebra discounts to your mobile phone.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV11 |
Get off the Water Grid: Greywater and Composting Toilets
Want a bountiful garden irrigated from your greywater? Learn how to reduce dependence on the water grid with low-tech, low-cost options.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV12 |
Saving the Earth, One Bite at a Time
Bay Area Vegetarians
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "[The meat industry] emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global."
Visit the Bay Area Vegetarians booth for free information on how to save the planet one bite at a time, and learn more about who we are, what we do, and how to get involved.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV14 |
Self Adapting Water Heater Set-back Timer
Tim Black
A microprocessor watches the hot water usage at the tank, finds patterns in the usage, and reduces the energy usage when possible. Part of a larger project called ezgreenup.com
| Location: Homegrown Village HV14 |
Mushroom MiniFarms
Grow your own organic exotic mushrooms! These pre-activated minifarms will produce delicious Shiitake or Tree Oyster mushrooms mushrooms from 2 to 6 months.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV15 |
Take Back the Tap
Supporting tap water over bottled water and defending our public water resources from privatization.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV16 |
cmbsweets: the world's most delicious jam (and cookies!)
cmbsweets is the maker of the world's most delicious jam (and now, cookies too)! Every jar has just three ingredients: California-grown fruit, sugar, and lemon juice. So the flavor is pure, intense, and, it'll make you really happy. Plus, it's all handcrafted with love in sunny San Francisco.
Plus, this year, we've crafted our take on some classic sweets - the all-American cookie. That includes the infamous chocolate chip, peanut butter and jelly, and gingersnaps.
How could you possibly resist?
| Location: Homegrown Village HV19 |
Tofu Making
We are Hodo Soy Beanery, a local artisanal food company specializing in innovative approaches to tofu making. We are doing demos and teaching folks the science and art of tofu making, as well as sampling a variety of products.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV20 |
Poco Dolce Chocolates
Sample and buy our delicious chocolate and toffee products. Our signature is a bittersweet chocolate tile topped with grey sea salt. Try our new line of mini toffee squares covered in bittersweet chocolate.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV21 |
Make Your Own Darn Coffee!
Learn to make your own french pressed coffee & toddy (slow, cold, filtered, ice coffee)! Ritual Coffee Roasters will sell flights of french pressed coffee and/or toddy. we will show you how to brew on both devices! We will sell you everything you need to make both--french press, toddy maker, grinder, coffee. We will also have several coffees from different regions.
| Location: Homegrown Village HV22 |
Guayaki Rainforest Grown Organic Yerba Mate
Guayaki's Market-Driven-Restoration business model directly links our customer's purchases to our partner farming communities in the South American Atlantic rainforest. Guayaki's partners sustainably harvest organic yerba mate from rainforest grown cultivators and reforestation projects, generating a renewable income stream which enables these communities to improve their lives and restore their lands.
| Location: Homegrown Village WL26 |
It's good for the barrel, it's great for your wine!
Steve Kemiji
ReCoop's mission is to double the useful life of our customers' barrels, while ensuring their ability to produce excellent wine. We are committed to conservation, and we enjoy the respect and visibility that goes with supporting green manufacturing.
| Location: Homegrown Village WL27 |
PrimitiveWays.com
We are a group of makers interested in primitive technology. We would like to demonstrate: Knapping (stone tool making), knife making, fire making, cord making using native plants, net making, basket making, primitive pigment making, bow making and much more.
| Location: Homegrown Village WL28 |
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